About the Authors

Alan E. Rorie

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Juan Gao

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

James L. McClelland

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

William T. Newsome

bill@monkeybiz.stanford.edu

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR WTN. Performed the experiments: AR. Analyzed the data: AR JG JLM WTN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR JG JLM WTN. Wrote the paper: AR JG JLM WTN. Conducted simulations: JG JLM.